Reaper Bones Giant Wererat

 This giant wererat would make a great boss to fight in a game.  I can see using plague rats as his minions.

For me , the hardest part is picking out colors.  I wanted to do a gray rat...so i needed good contrasting skin for gray to make him pop.

Once again I zenithal primed him and used speed paints for the initial base coat. Then I did a lot of cleaning and highlighting with Reaper paints.

I did spray a layer of matte varnish on him and others...this really helps knock down the weird shine /gloss thatthe speed paints give.

Spikeshell: Reaper Bones Antipaladin: Spikeshell

 This is Spikeshell, apparently an evil tortoise. The sculpt caught my eye as a very unique mini. I do find it hard that tortoises can be evil.

I primed him black and tried to zenithal highlight him with gray and then white.  Then I used speedpaints for quick coverage and to test color schemes. After that, I cleaned up areas, added borders, highlights and details. 

He turned out to be a nice tabletop standard.

I tried to go for a blacker steel on the armor and red eyes denoting evil.

Wizkids Dragonborn Fighters

These are Wizkids Dragonborn fighters.

For these I first Primed them black and the drybrushed the with white.  I then used Army Painter speed paints to get the colors on the minis.  Speedpaints can look a bit rough and splotchy, so I did another pass cleaning  the edges and adding highlights with acrylics I have...reaper paints.  

Overall the process took a few hours and gave a result I can live with. My old process would have taken a long time.

Reaper Bones Lizardmen

 These lizards are speed painted using the Army Painter basic speedpaints.

I started by priming them black and then dry brushing them grey and then white.

 Next, I base coated the miniatures using the speed paints, and then I used regular acrylics to add highlights and do cleanup.

Basically this is the Slap Chop method.

I would say each miniature took an hour which is fast for me.....

Reaper Bones Werewolf

 Here is a Bones werewolf done in a brown color scheme.

Grenadier Armored Dwarf with Great Axe

 This is an odd mini I found in one of my boxed sets..maybe adventurers. Not my greatest work but I had to keep up the painting momentum.

 I used Reaper metallics which I tried to water down. I tinted the plate armor blue. Next time I will try Navy Blue dry bryshed with metals to see if that comes out more smooth.

Grenadier AD&D Druid with Sling

 This is a druid from the Grenadier Boxed set 2013 Adventuring Party.  Overall I am happy with him and will add him to the Grenadier adventuring team.

He is called Snow-slinging Druid which baffles me.  Instead of snow in his sling...I gave him metal bullets for better damage.  Snow?  I don't see how that would do anything to most enemies...

Here is the back of him.  The hat he is wearing is interesting to me...he looks like a Cossack. The hair is the weak point in the paint job....it is a tough color to work with.